CVS Pharmacy

I work close to this CVS. They are always just so busy! The staff is friendly and have never had a problem here. The customer service is spot on. They are always stocking trying to stay ahead. The people who complain about the shelves being empty have no idea of the amount of foot traffic goes through here. They also keep all they’re stock in the basement. That means they have to carry everything up a flight of stairs. So give them a break people. These guy’s are busting their butts.

My experience at this specific CVS location is always phenomenal as everything is always stocked great, customer service is exceptional and as its only a block away from my apartment and just steps from the Fullerton Red Line stop. I’ve been coming here for almost a year and have never had an issue until the last two times I had been there. Both experiences in which I had the same cashier, Donna. My first bad experience I had been waiting in line with my hands completely full with a couple in front of me checking out and they were taking an oddly long time to check out, finally a new cashier opens on the next register and sees I had been waiting with my hands full for some time and the man who was with the woman checking out steps right over to the cashier that just opened register and goes to buy a pack of cigarettes!!! I had already had my things on the counter ready to purchase and Donna didn’t say a word! Although the man was in the wrong for stepping in front of me, I thought it was awfully rude she didn’t ask him to wait his turn. Secondly, I was checking out today and my hands were completely full as I just got off of work. As I was going through my purse to get my wallet, Donna RUDELY asks me to take my shoes off of the counter. I’m sorry, I had nowhere to set my things– maybe Donna shouldn’t work at this CVS anymore as she does not fit in with any of the wonderful employees that work there.

OH NOES!!! Although on a busy corner adjacent to the bustling DePaul campus, the store is usually empty. That’s primarily because of the sky — high prices and Soviet era ambiance, making this a total waste of valuable real estate space. Hint to CVS: visit the Whole Foods down the street — or even any Walgreens — to pick up a bit of «retail savvy».

So CVS is between my doc’s office and whole foods. So I drop off the RX and the guy (his name was Lenny) said «it’ll be an hour and a half.» I was like wow, but ok. I’ll hang at Whole Foods.
So I go. I come back an hour and a half later. I go to CVS, and the woman says «you’re not in the system.»
I said «I dropped it off an hour and a half ago.»
She says «with who?»
I said «Lenny.»
She says «oh…Lenny.»
Then she finds my RX paper and says «Lenny put it in the pile of prescriptions to do for tomorrow so if you want it today it’ll be at least another half hour.»
I said «give it back to me right now.»
So I walk up to Walgreen’s. I give them my RX and the woman says «ok. 15 minutes. Maybe less.»
Walgreen’s 1, CVS 0.

What kind of CVS closes there pharmacy at 3pm on Saturday in the city of Chicago ???
It’s right off Fullerton by DePaul University even when I lived in the country cvs was open till 8pm.

This CVS is semi-​conveniently located off of Lincoln Avenue and Fullerton. This CVS has an entrance on both sides of these roads. It has an ATM but it is not Chase. I came here to get some cash back on a Gatorade purchase. The staff was helpful and able to get me some dough.

Worst CVS I’ve ever been to which is unfortunate since it’s the closest store, now that Dominick’s has closed.
1) Always running out of things
2) You need to find employees to get things like razors and employees are not always easy to find
3) Pharmacy is open 9am-​7pm making it very difficult to get there when you work regular hours
4) Don’t let you do cash back with debit card!

I really don’t like this CVS very much. It’s small and cramped with an awkward layout, and the registers at both the front and back are sort of confusing. Sometimes there is nobody in back, sometimes nobody in front — really hard to find anyone to help you if you need it. And the layout is just so smushed and unpleasant.
I mean, I don’t exactly avoid certain CVSs, if I need Advil then I need Advil, but if I had my choice I’d avoid this one.

This has been the best CVS I’ve ever used, and I don’t want to go anywhere else! In the four years I’ve been a customer the pharmacist has helped me through many medication changes and has assisted with problems when I did use another CVS – in a pinch, because in this location, the pharmacy is closed on Sunday (which is the only drawback I see). The bad reviews of this store surprise me. Yes, it’s small and sometimes crowded, but then, so is the neighborhood. This is the best pharmacy and best pharmcist I’ve had since childhood, and yes folks, I confess I’m an antique. But that only lends strength to my words. Faith G.

They have two entrances, but it’s pretty small in there. It was clean, but selections is not up to par with other CVS stores.

Great pharmacist. Terrible store. They tend not to carry the items in the ads. Care more about inventory shrink than having inventory to sell. I think the CEO would be shocked if he visited this store. We’ve started going back to Walgreens.

Small, but meets the need. Manager is so friendly and helpful. I gave 3*s because checkout tends to be slow if more than two ppl

The CVS pharmacy here has screwed me over more times than I can count. They are inconsiderate and completely un sympathetic to their customers. The last time I used them, they ignored my doctor’s fax and when I finally got sick of them, I told them to send my prescriptions to the walgreens. When I showed up at the hours later to pickup my refill, the pharmacist there informed me that CVS hadn’t sent even my information over! I am sick of having to sit on my own pharmacy to refill a prescription!

Well, it’s gotten better, if only because I moved and now live by a worse CVS. I lived by this one long enough that most of the employees knew me and treated me well enough but come on, it can’t really be this hard can it?

It’s a CVS – and it lacks selection. I guess it’s alright, but I kinda have grown accustom to a larger CVS than this one is.
Not much of a selection for anything, always super busy, and not enough employees that work here.

I’m a regular at CVS Pharmacies around Chicago, but this is about the least clean/​least well-​managed of all I’ve been to. They do have great deals, and I use the ECB cards, but you have to watch them closely.
Example of sale advertising that can throw you off if you don’t pay attention to the fine print:

went in to get meds. they were fast. store was dirty. other employees were rude. and it was busy.